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finally, been waiting for the reload button to be detached and combined with stop! to be honest the go button was simply useless. looks much more neat now. now just im just waiting for aero peek to come back :)

idea - you guys should make a theme editor within chrome itself. not so much to change the window. but just rather the color of the ui.

Nice update! Even cleaner Ominbar than before, and Mac is *finally* pretty much as fast as Firefox and Safari on scrolling with the trackpad in Snow Leopard after all these months! Better late than never. ;)

I LOVE the newest UI, it looks great and makes sense - less buttons and knobs is better and the star on the left probably throws most FF users for a while (I use the keyboard shortcut anyway). I'm also with Justin on the "go" button - useless - glad to see it go.

I'm also (thanks Justin) pretty stoked about the Chrome pdf viewer. I might just have to ditch my current Win 7 entertainment machine for a Chrome OS portal, when it arrives . . .

Sorry. The Reload button was better when it was flush with the omnibar. Very ugly the way it is now. Infact, i would like to see all buttons to be flush with the omnibar.One, smooth bar would be sweet.Or atleast don't make them buttons, but icons without borders.

The translate bar incorrectly identifies a language. A French or German page is identified as "Icelandic" or "Indonesian", and when I press it, it translates it assuming that it is in "Japanese", and it translates it into Finnish even though I manually chose "Czech". ;-) It's just making a complete fun out of us! :-)

For the time being, I restored the last version 6.0.427.Here's what I did: - Exit Chrome - Open Regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} - Set 'pv' to '6.0.427.0' - Start Chrome

Weird, no crashes here. I get a child process crash every once in a while when I have Chrome in the background but I can't figure out what is crashing (no infobar) and it doesn't seem to affect browsing.

The Windows 7 version is fine, but the XP version that I use at work uses the old stop button graphic. By that I mean that refresh looks normal, but the stop button has a flat left side instead of rounded.

I am able to sync extensions on home and work computers (after enabling sync). Thats a success. But since now I got lot more extensions on both computers, had to clean up some extensions to make room. Can we combine the last two chromebar buttons to make space for extensions ? "control current page" and "control google chrome" buttons ?

I have to agree with Austin. The Go button may be hated by a lot of users but it is also very desired by a lot of users. I'm always seeing traffic on my blog post about regaining the Go button in Firefox and now I'm off to look for an extension to regain it for Chrome.

I understand the rationale for combing the stop and reload buttons but the usability for me has taken a direct hit since it's to the left of the Omnibar. Is it possible to write a theme that locates the combined button to the right?

The reload button changes, good or bad, make it painfully obvious to me that the toolbar should be user customizable. (As is standard with both Firefox and Safari). By this I mean it should be straightforward to move, shift, add, remove buttons from the toolbar.

Personally, I miss the go/arrow button on the right of the omnibox. I also love the Safari 3.0 style stop/reload button. While it might seem redundant to some to have both a stop/reload button and a go/stop button, I find its useful to have both depending on where my mouse is.

A go button also seems necessary for users who would like to be able to type a URL or search term and then click a button to "go". The reload button does not do this....

Why break something that isnt broken, I find it very frustrating not having a go button. That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen, taking away the Go button. Please either bring it back, or somebody please make an app for it. I want my Go button back.

Finally, home and work computer extensions are sync as of today Monday morning with new 6.0.437.3But the order of extensions in tab, is not the same in both computers. Would be good to have them in same order ,for familiar look and feel

@Greg A - If I'm not mistaken, the IE team had some of those "why didn't anyone think of that before" moments. I mean, I'm just saying -- no need to start a war. Just giving credit where credit is due.

BTW, I'm typing this on Chrome [beta].

Still, I hope the new way of opening new tabs -- at the far end of the strip is fixed pronto.

Using the mac version, i still have "problem" with bookmark icons. When i drill down bookmark folders from bookmark bar for the first time, per bookmark item i don't see the relative icon. When i open from the second time forward, icons appear correctly.

Here's an idea: when the bookmark toolbar is disabled, it should be hidden under the omnibox until the mouse pointer is passed over. Then the floating bookmark toolbar opens (very much like hiding the start menu toolbar). As soon as the pointer moves away, the bookmark toolbar hides away.

Oh please, will you all stop whining about colours, where bits go, etc. And as for you imbecile spammers, words fail me.Anyway, you can get previous Dev versions at FileHippo.com (though they call them Beta for some unknown reason). I've stuck with 6.0.422.0 on Vista, and it never crashes.

Hi , I have a problem too with chrome dev . I run this version on 2 computers at work and home . I was able to update one computer to the latest release but the other one is giving me an error like can not connect to update server, and take allot of time to search for updates.The other problem that I have is with the synchronization of the bookmarks . One one computer I delete bookmarks when I get home I get the same bookmarks again but in other folders . Do other have the same problems with bookmarks or is it just me ?

I liked the "go" button. Does the browser gains too much in performance if it lacks it, or if it lacks the usual customization options of most browsers? I understand that there's a minimalist concept they're aiming to, but I think that the possibility of adding or removing some stuff accordingly with one's own preference would only benefit the browser. I'd be surprised if it only comes at cost of performance.

Other thing I miss, by the way, is the middle click anywhere as a paste-clipboard-on-the-address-bar-and-go button, as it's the default on linux for most browsers.